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A man takes photos at the Albrecht Duerer exhibition during a press preview in the Germanisches Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, May 22, 2012. Germany's biggest exhibit of works by German artist Albrecht Duerer will open to the public from May 24 until September 2, 2012.

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A man takes photos at the Albrecht Duerer exhibition during a press preview in the Germanisches Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, May 22, 2012. Germany's biggest exhibit of works by German artist Albrecht Duerer will open to the public from May 24 until September 2, 2012.

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The SpaceX launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and a unmanned Dragan capsule lights up the sky during liftoff from a Cape Canaveral launch pad early morning, May 22, 2012, as it streaks over a model of NASA's space shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center. The capsule is headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.

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Rosela Zelaya Valderramoi, 70, rests inside her house in the Paptalaya pier, where helicopters of a joint Honduran-U.S. drug raid landed last Friday, in Ahuas, Mosquitia, Honduras, May 21, 2012. On Friday May 11, a helicopter mission with advisers from the DEA, appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others.

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John Fiorenzo, center, catches a brief nap during the address to the graduates at his Boston College Commencement ceremony, while a classmate yawns behind him at Alumni Stadium on the university's campus in Boston, May 21, 2012.

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A woman rides a horse to the shrine of El Rocio on May 22, 2012, during the annual El Rocio pilgrimage, in Seville, Spain. The pilgrimage to Almonte which houses the Virgin del Rocio is the largest in Spain, with hundreds of thousands of devotees in traditional outfits as they make their way on horseback and decorated carriages across the Andalusian countryside.

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Oakland Athletics' Josh Donaldson ducks out of the way after nearly getting hit by a pitch from Los Angeles Angels' starting pitcher Jerome Williams during the second inning at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., May 12, 2012.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police train in Hyde Park on horses from the Household Cavalry, May 22, 2012, in London. The, Mounties have been invited by Queen Elizabeth II to act as her personal bodyguard in the run up to her Diamond Jubilee, and are preparing for the Changing of the Queen's Guard ceremony.

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Lequinho, a two-month-old green monkey, plays with veterinarian Alex Spadetti's shoelace at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro, May 22. 2012. Lequinho, whose mother died in childbirth, is being cared for by a team of veterinarians and biologists.